A key purpose of the @RISK is to provide the data that will ensure that the 20 Critical Controls (the US and UK benchmark for effective protection of networked systems) continue to be the most effective defenses for all known attack vectors. But since it is also valuable for security practitioners, SANS is making it available to the 145,000 security practitioners who have completed SANS security training and others at their organizations who hope to stay current with the offensive methods in use.

TRAINING UPDATE

Security Operations Center (SOC) Summit | Washington, DC | April 24 -
May 1, 2015 | Join chairmen Dr. Eric Cole and Jim Goddard as well as
others who have faced similar challenges in increasing their enterprise's
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Title: WordPress 4.1.2 Released; Security Issues Addressed
Description: WordPress has released an update to the blog platform,
addressing a cross-site scripting vulnerability which could allow an
unauthenticated attacker to compromise a site. Three other security
issues were also addressed in the update which affects WordPress 3.9 and
higher. Users are strongly encouraged to update their WordPress
installations to version 4.1.2.
Reference:https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-1-2/
Snort SID: Detection pending release of vulnerability information

Title: XSS Vulnerability Affecting Multiple WordPress Plugins
Description: An XSS vulnerability within multiple WordPress plugins has
been discovered and addressed. The issue is "due to the misuse of the
add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg() functions" within plugins,
resulting in unsanitized variables being used within the vulnerable
plug-ins. All known affected plug-ins have been patched and users are
strongly encouraged to update their WordPress plug-ins if they are found
to be out of date.
Reference:https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/04/security-advisory-xss-vulnerability-affecting-multiple-wordpress-plugins.html
Snort SID: Detection pending release of vulnerability information

Title: Mojang Updates Minecraft to Patch Server Crash Vulnerability
Description: A security researcher has made public a vulnerability
within the Minecraft server component that could allow an attacker to
perform a denial of service attack. The developer notes that, prior to
going public with the vulnerability, they had communicated with Mojang
in attempting to address the issue. Mojang has patched the
vulnerability in response to the vulnerability disclosure.
Reference:http://blog.ammaraskar.com/minecraft-vulnerability-advisory/
Snort SID: Detection pending

This is a list of recent vulnerabilities for which exploits are
available. System administrators can use this list to help in
prioritization of their remediation activities. The Qualys Vulnerability
Research Team compiles this information based on various exploit
frameworks, exploit databases, exploit kits and monitoring of internet
activity.

ID: CVE-2015-0313
Title: Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Vendor: Adobe
Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before
13.0.0.269 and 14.x through 16.x before 16.0.0.305 on Windows and OS X
and before 11.2.202.442 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute
arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in
February 2015, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0315,
CVE-2015-0320, and CVE-2015-0322.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2015-0318
Title: Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Vendor: Adobe
Description: Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.269 and 14.x through 16.x
before 16.0.0.305 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.442 on Linux
allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service
(memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability
than CVE-2015-0314, CVE-2015-0316, CVE-2015-0321, CVE-2015-0329, and
CVE-2015-0330.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2014-7169
Title: Multiple Vendor Bash Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Multiple Vendors
Description: GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-025 processes trailing strings
after certain malformed function definitions in the values of
environment variables, which allows remote attackers to write to files
or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted environment, as
demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH
sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache HTTP Server,
scripts executed by unspecified DHCP clients, and other situations in
which setting the environment occurs across a privilege boundary from
Bash execution. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete
fix for CVE-2014-6271.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2014-6271
Title: Multiple Vendor Bash Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Multiple Vendors
Description: GNU Bash through 4.3 processes trailing strings after
function definitions in the values of environment variables, which
allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted
environment, as demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand
feature in OpenSSH sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache
HTTP Server, scripts executed by unspecified DHCP clients, and other
situations in which setting the environment occurs across a privilege
boundary from Bash execution, aka "ShellShock." NOTE: the original fix
for this issue was incorrect; CVE-2014-7169 has been assigned to cover
the vulnerability that is still present after the incorrect fix.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

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